Paulo Freire: Community Based Arts Education

Abstract

This PCp";s about Paulo FUlu and his in{fumu on tin pusputiw and applialtion of litvac:y programming and intvdnciplinary ~ducation through the arH. Portraiture, as uud in this pcper. is a collution of stories that ilfumilllJIC historical, social, a"d O4ll11ral i,,{fuet/us that co,meet (Reinhar~, 1992) Freire to a communityalld to the world. Freire's pedagogiaJl/h~ry requires educators and sri/dents 10 tJUlmine self. cullurt. and community. II also addr~SJeS issues of ~r. voice. co,,{fic/. clsJS. gmda. and race. Freires 1'/;;10$01'11)' alld applialtion i1fu$lrala ,be value 11~ plaud on educalion Ihrough lif~ ~x~rienceS/lmowJedge, the arts, alld cu/lures of the people. In this paper, I preun' exurpts from Freire's 1996 CO"ference presen/alion at Diadnna. j,,'erviews witll fnire, Fral/cisco 8rt/lllal/d. a Braul artiu and ~worktr of Freire. a"d AmI Mae Barbosa. past praide"t of International Society of £dUal/ion through Art, Q professor at The: Univtrsity of sao Paulo, "'nd (I student of Fr~iu.